And I replied I sometimes re-use a password. Which obviously got me a reply from John, asking why on Earth I would do that, and I'd better have a different identity for each re-use of passwords.So, let me explain...

I read it all too often. (Especially) women, feeling unsafe on the streets. And as a man, there's nothing I can do to make them feel safer. I try to keep my safe distance, not to intimidate and of course, I won't charge at someone randomly.

As you might know, I have a number of Rasberry Pi's. A Pi-hole, a RetroPie, an OpenELEC Mediacentre, a server in the Netherlands thanks to PC Extreme and an unused RPi3 and RPi Zero W. I also have, obviously, a PiCam.So, I decided that one "unused" RPi, would be a...

AdBlockers are tiresome. They slow down your browser and don't even actually block the advertisements, they just hide them. No bandwidth saved and a burning hot laptop on my lap because of all the advertisements. That is, until recently, I discovered Pi-Hole(tm)

My good colleague and friend Dan is in Wellington for SilverStripe business. But, besides that, he also wanted, to obviously, discover New Zealand. And as I hadn't done that yet in the just-over-a-year I am living here, it was the perfect opportunity to go on a roadtrip together!

Today, I had to say goodbye to my dearest friend Chris and let him go back to his home country South Africa. I miss you my dear friend. Please take good care of Yoshi and the rest of your family. I will never forget you.

So yes, I moved to New Zealand from the Netherlands. Making such a step isn't easy. But when you make the decision, you hope everything goes smoothly. But my experiences with companies hasn't always been that smooth.

Vagrant, Docker, VagrantDockerPlatform, Platform, System. It's hard to keep up with all the innovations in the virtualisation world. Personally, I use a Vagrant Machine made by Twisted Bytes to run my projects.

Honestly? There's nothing from the Netherlands I really miss. I don't care about hagelslag*, there's milk, cheese and even Grolsch here (The local liquor store even refers to me as `Grolschman` now, please don't ask). But there are a lot of things I miss though.

Dear Municipality of Enschede. I unsubscribed from your taxes on february 9th, 2016.Apparently, you have forgotten to ACTUALLY unsubscribe me.And now I have to proof I don't live at the given address anymore? Really? Give me a break.

So, February 7th the last day in Enschede. Cleaning up the last bits, stuffing Philip his car full of stuff that needs to be picked up and packing my last things into my backpack. Getting ready to really, really take a deep breath and a big leap into a new future.